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  • Опубліковано 24 лис 2024

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  • @ronburke
    @ronburke 3 роки тому +35

    Had a buddy over in shelton wa. started out highclimbin for simpson timber co. for 12 dollars day, he passed away at 74 from liver cancer just 5 weeks after his last climbin job

  • @jordanbundle6148
    @jordanbundle6148 Рік тому +5

    As a arborist I can say these dudes back then we’re insane & built completely different💪🏽 RESPECT

  • @MoyFlow11
    @MoyFlow11 4 роки тому +35

    I'm proud to be able to say I'm an arborist. Love these men. Skills on another level

    • @MalbackHendrix
      @MalbackHendrix 4 роки тому +8

      don't compare these men to arborists! no rope, no prussik, only a lanyard and balls

    • @BTS-gu4iz
      @BTS-gu4iz 3 роки тому +1

      @@MalbackHendrix lol, tree loppers regularly just spur up a tree and tip the head out. I have done 4 just this week. The are honestly some of the easiest jobs. Only difference is that I use a chainsaw. If someone wants to pay me more to do it with an axe and crosscut i gladly would

    • @HabeasJ
      @HabeasJ 2 роки тому +1

      @@MalbackHendrix the didn't use a rope back then? Man, I guess that rope they always tossed around the tree was for show...

    • @cgfitnessandarboriculture
      @cgfitnessandarboriculture 2 роки тому

      No crane? Forget it. Lol just kidding. Always interesting to watch this kind of stuff and compare it to the industry today.

    • @turdferguson2982
      @turdferguson2982 2 роки тому

      @@HabeasJ, you mean the lanyard? Gaffing up and climbing a rope are two different things.

  • @That.Skinny.Climber
    @That.Skinny.Climber Рік тому +2

    Proud to say that my brother and I are arborist's, carrying on the loggin' family tradition out of Southern WA (he owns a tree service on the big island of Hawaii). Uncle has owned his logging company for years with a great reputation. Grandpa would be proud.

  • @marcofemto9417
    @marcofemto9417 2 роки тому +13

    Imagine the stamina and toughness of these men. 💪 No chainsaws back then

  • @turdferguson2982
    @turdferguson2982 2 роки тому +4

    Prussic loop is pretty revolutionary for those old fellers. I'm pretty happy with my spider lift.

  • @w4rg3rm
    @w4rg3rm 2 роки тому +5

    As a line clearance arborist, I enjoy these.

  • @LincolnSP150
    @LincolnSP150 3 роки тому +15

    My twin Uncles, Albert and Clark Dayton were loggers back when it was virgin timberland up in Ashland Wisconsin.
    I remember when my Dad took us up to Ashland, to visit and site see the tremendous huge
    floating islands of logs on Lake Superior, waiting to be towed to the saw mills.
    It is impossible to describe how it looked, it was unbelievable to see such a huge amount of floating logs ready for the saw mills.

    • @ceruleanangel2364
      @ceruleanangel2364 Рік тому

      dang bruh ty for the imagery ur description was pretty cool that sounds crazy

  • @matthewr6937
    @matthewr6937 6 років тому +38

    When boys were men and men were monsters!!

  • @johac7637
    @johac7637 2 роки тому +2

    My Dad's donkey is still in the back 40 with lines still in a tree, unless it's rotted off and fell, I haven't walked up there since the mid 70s. Isn't in the hills above Chilliwack BC Canada.

  • @BushyHairedStranger
    @BushyHairedStranger 2 роки тому +8

    Oregon family since 1840. My great grandfather Logged the Siuslaw, the Smith, the Umpqua, the Alsea, and the Coquille, serious Timber.

    • @samuelluria4744
      @samuelluria4744 2 роки тому +1

      And now you're a barista?

    • @BushyHairedStranger
      @BushyHairedStranger Рік тому

      @@samuelluria4744 Nope, I own & run a highly successful family Forestry Business here in Oregon. Why do you ask if I’m employed as a Barista? do you need a job again?

    • @samuelluria4744
      @samuelluria4744 Рік тому +1

      Yeah, 🤣 I was just breaking your horns, because you mentioned your Grandfather, and not yourself...which is totally cool and humble, but left you open for a "Portlandia"-type jab...
      Stay safe!
      Just stay clear of anybody that smells like a double-caramel-raspberry-mocha-lat'cha'tino!! 😜

  • @allamericantreeservice3754
    @allamericantreeservice3754 2 роки тому +3

    That's what I would of been drawn too back then. I love climbing big old trees

  • @CaliforniaCarpenter7
    @CaliforniaCarpenter7 2 роки тому +7

    I watched this a couple days ago and had to come back and say that the song in this video has been stuck in my head ever since! I woke up this morning and my first thought was “Let’s go springboard choppinnnn’”. I absolutely LOVE this song and this video as well! Cheers!’

    • @SuzyAtwood
      @SuzyAtwood  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks! It's a very catchy tune! We listened to it a lot on our roadtrip to the World Lumberjack Championships one year! Glad you liked the video, my partner put it all together. Be sure to check out his channel at Wild Axe TV!

    • @lucassaueressig1411
      @lucassaueressig1411 Рік тому

      Buzz? Lol

  • @gregorysmith5627
    @gregorysmith5627 2 роки тому +3

    Lived and logged out of Gray's Harbor Washington. Third generation. Those were good days. Hard and dangerous work, used to be a saying about fatalities and accidents "a man a day". Still have allot of those old tools Grandpa handed down. I can still smell the shake rats in my mind.
    EPA came in to our rough and tumble town and shut it down. Still a bunch of gypos still at it though.
    Towns full of gays and druggies now... Seattle needs to stay home and leave the rest of us alone.

  • @normansilver905
    @normansilver905 Рік тому

    My uncle worked on the Clearwater River logging in the summer, log floats down river in the fall and tending bar during the winter in Moscow, ID.

  • @keiferbell6968
    @keiferbell6968 4 роки тому +9

    my great grandpa did that when he came to america

    • @jessecollin3184
      @jessecollin3184 3 роки тому +2

      I bet he lived longer than mine. Went straight to west va. Strip mining 🤦‍♂️

    • @kallekilo5978
      @kallekilo5978 2 роки тому

      Finnish loggers, the greatest of all

    • @samuelluria4744
      @samuelluria4744 2 роки тому

      @@kallekilo5978 - Right. Cause there's a way to guage that.
      My Grandfather came over to Montana from the Basque country and proceeded to bite the nuts off of several thousand sheep....but, there was no record keeping back then, and so his sheep-nut-biting exploits will be forgotten to history....

  • @onsight2822
    @onsight2822 2 роки тому +2

    Brilliant , thanks very much 👍😎

  • @Blackford86
    @Blackford86 5 років тому +6

    Love the music 👍👍👍👍👍

  • @KennysTreeRemoval
    @KennysTreeRemoval 6 років тому +25

    Real though dudes, now we're softies haha. Good video, thank you for sharing.

    • @ronburke
      @ronburke 3 роки тому +3

      can you imagine chunkin a big fir down with an axe and swede fiddle even in 6 to 10 footers thats alot of choppin and sawin!

  • @garybailey8218
    @garybailey8218 2 роки тому +2

    I would crack - up when I would ask Jerry-Paul,,”which way you gonna fall it”? He’d smile and say “DOWN”

  • @johac7637
    @johac7637 2 роки тому

    Saw Danny Sailor in Vancouver BC many time at the PNE.

  • @2geniussaredneck658
    @2geniussaredneck658 4 роки тому +7

    And we think logging and climbing dangerous today how about back then

  • @clasifiedinformation847
    @clasifiedinformation847 4 роки тому +2

    I love this video!!!

  • @kenweis2291
    @kenweis2291 2 роки тому +3

    I climbed trees for 20 years....then past year i had a top split and take my climbing loop 50 ft...melted my knot and threw me off....i got really hurt

    • @SuzyAtwood
      @SuzyAtwood  2 роки тому +4

      It's a dangerous job! Hope you are okay now Ken!

    • @msvtrees4615
      @msvtrees4615 2 роки тому

      I am sorry to hear. How are you now?

  • @miketreadwell5654
    @miketreadwell5654 7 років тому +6

    real cool!!! to see Ed Smith from Eatonville and Hap Johnson from Castle Rock

    • @davidadams6544
      @davidadams6544 6 років тому

      Mike Treadwell DOES ANYONE REMEMBER JOE FLORI?

    • @bradjohnson2849
      @bradjohnson2849 5 років тому +2

      Nice to see some old video floating around of great uncle Hap.

  • @nancysmith9487
    @nancysmith9487 2 роки тому +2

    We have those two poles guy ed together, so the guy still climbing rocks both poles inter rupting knot tieing for the other person... not like cutting trees, either fully guy them or not at all, I'm thinking...
    Great work

    • @samuelluria4744
      @samuelluria4744 2 роки тому

      Keep on thinkin'...
      ........best thing ferr'ya!

  • @paulhiebert1112
    @paulhiebert1112 5 років тому +9

    Ive got AXE DISEASE ! And I LOVE this video :) Who is performing that great logging, foot stop'n song ???? :)

    • @ertreeservice9558
      @ertreeservice9558 3 роки тому

      I’d like to know the song too!?

    • @SuzyAtwood
      @SuzyAtwood  3 роки тому +2

      I'm Going Springboard Chopping - WEIRD ERIC BUNYAN

  • @ceruleanangel2364
    @ceruleanangel2364 Рік тому

    them old timers were nuts omg

  • @GB-go6gp
    @GB-go6gp 9 місяців тому

    My niece once asked me if I had a death wish. I retired at 32 from crab fishing /pot cod / salmon tendering, and I joined the Ironworkers Union. I told her 'no, you're thinking of a logger'. Those guys have a dozen ways to get killed, and that's before they even climb a tree !

  • @hammertreemasterchief6447
    @hammertreemasterchief6447 6 років тому +3

    Nicely done 😁

  • @christianfuentealba2080
    @christianfuentealba2080 4 роки тому +4

    Buenos para el trabajo esos viejos me hubiera gustado estar con ellos

  • @optimusprimum
    @optimusprimum 2 роки тому

    Tree climber here 💪🏼✊🏻

  • @mhamar70
    @mhamar70 2 роки тому

    One of those voices at the beginning sounds like Oiva Wirkkala

  • @jessecollin3184
    @jessecollin3184 3 роки тому +7

    I pay my climber $300-$450 a day. They deserve every $🙏

    • @beatmycarne9021
      @beatmycarne9021 2 роки тому

      Where you at?

    • @turdferguson2982
      @turdferguson2982 2 роки тому

      Hiring?

    • @samuelluria4744
      @samuelluria4744 2 роки тому

      I would do whatever your climber is doing, for $250/day, and I have ALL my own gear, and I drag brush, shoulder wood, repair equipment, buy cold drinks for the young bums, don't ask anyone else to sharpen my saw, or gas it up....
      Too bad I'm in Jersey, competing with hundreds of illegals...

  • @ronburke
    @ronburke 3 роки тому +1

    dont get to see ol Hap much anymore, I heard there was some kind of legal copyright jargon goin on so they removed his coffee break video.Do you know anything about that?

  • @jasonarment836
    @jasonarment836 2 місяці тому

    GOOGLE HAP JOHNSON THE LEGEND

  • @williamjones9985
    @williamjones9985 9 місяців тому

    I did that for two months every fukin day rain or snow only time you got to stay on the ground was when the wind would be a danger

  • @leeveler7729
    @leeveler7729 2 роки тому +2

    I'm 53......still climbing

  • @jatimalangtv8161
    @jatimalangtv8161 2 роки тому

    Nice🙏🏼👍

  • @missmollyeslinger4014
    @missmollyeslinger4014 Рік тому

    My dad is rolin mentioned in the song! At 6:23:)❤

  • @charlespryce7067
    @charlespryce7067 2 роки тому

    Just thinking if you had to do that today

  • @kyleferber1519
    @kyleferber1519 4 роки тому +2

    Song credits please, I love the song, who sings it?

    • @SuzyAtwood
      @SuzyAtwood  3 роки тому

      I'm Going Springboard Chopping - WEIRD ERIC BUNYAN

  • @robertnielsen7562
    @robertnielsen7562 Рік тому

    66. still climbing

  • @Yousemimight
    @Yousemimight 4 роки тому +1

    It is too done everyday just not the way they did it in 1900 like this competition. Things have come a long.way

  • @Inflammate
    @Inflammate 2 роки тому

    whats the song on the end?

  • @John-mz8rj
    @John-mz8rj 3 роки тому

    Crazy.

  • @hunterchalmers3205
    @hunterchalmers3205 2 роки тому

    What's the source material for the black & white footage?

  • @calvinsusanwebber3414
    @calvinsusanwebber3414 5 років тому +4

    the average life of a man then was only 45 to 50 years back then.

  • @JuanMendez-on3we
    @JuanMendez-on3we 5 років тому +1

    whats the name of song

    • @SuzyAtwood
      @SuzyAtwood  3 роки тому

      I'm Going Springboard Chopping - WEIRD ERIC BUNYAN

  • @BushyHairedStranger
    @BushyHairedStranger 2 роки тому

    Albany, Oregon Timber Carnival.

  • @Thetreefella
    @Thetreefella 2 роки тому

    💚🌳💚🌳💚🌳💚🌳💚🌳

  • @cecilkellyjr
    @cecilkellyjr 6 років тому +1

    Tenino wa

  • @miketreadwell5654
    @miketreadwell5654 4 роки тому

    highest paid job in the woods(tree Topping) 40's=50's=60's

    • @miketreadwell5654
      @miketreadwell5654 4 роки тому +1

      I have no idea where you got $21.50 hr.Cutters Make $200=$400 per day in the NW

    • @py2724
      @py2724 2 роки тому

      @@jaredmercer7043 we ain’t talking bucket cutters, or suburban yards here cowboy
      This is the industrial side of what you are imaging (aka logging not suburban tree care)

    • @py2724
      @py2724 2 роки тому

      @@jaredmercer7043 I started out of jail at 20 cutting trees with a refurbished saw I was given by a local scrapper

    • @py2724
      @py2724 2 роки тому

      @@jaredmercer7043 I don’t put anything above two stories down for under 200 bucks
      That doesn’t include clean up & break down
      Go get started on your own
      Didn’t even have ropes or a ladder
      Made tree house stairs out of a board to climb up my first job for neighbors

    • @py2724
      @py2724 2 роки тому

      I own 5 companies now
      It just takes determination… sometimes balls of steel help

  • @Gabriel_Moline
    @Gabriel_Moline 5 років тому +3

    Well, one thing is for sure, you cannot find a two hundred foot fir tree anymore.

    • @HubertofLiege
      @HubertofLiege 4 роки тому +3

      Gabriel Moline yes you can I cut a fir down not too long ago that was close to two fifty and over five foot in diameter at the base. I took it at eighty feet to fit it into the lot it was on .

    • @Gabriel_Moline
      @Gabriel_Moline 4 роки тому +1

      Lorric Logging Well, that is excellent. Good work. As soon as you get them down, the fires will come and take the rest. Just like Brazil and Australia. Looking forward to the entire content of North America to be nothing but smoldering coals and soot and concrete. Just hope I live long enough to see the fear and anguish on the faces of all the humans finally realizing it’s too far gone. Just a few more years.

    • @HubertofLiege
      @HubertofLiege 4 роки тому +5

      Gabriel Moline don’t believe the hype, dude, I walk in timber like this occasionally it still exists, and grows back to this height. You are letting the media manipulate you.

    • @Gabriel_Moline
      @Gabriel_Moline 4 роки тому +2

      Lorric Logging I have removed thousands of trees. It’s my job. Residential almost exclusively. Unlike you, I know there is a limit.

    • @Gabriel_Moline
      @Gabriel_Moline 4 роки тому

      Lorric Logging You should upload more vidz. I put up a bunch. None good, but still.

  • @prepperjonpnw6482
    @prepperjonpnw6482 5 років тому +2

    Would have been much better without the music lol